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Anna Karenina

‘I would only make one condition,’ pursued the old
prince. ‘Alphonse Karr said a capital thing before the war
with Prussia: ‘You consider war to be inevitable? Very
good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a

special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every
storm, of every attack, to lead them all!’’
‘A nice lot the editors would make!’ said Katavasov,
with a loud roar, as he pictured the editors he knew in this
picked legion.
‘But they’d run,’ said Dolly, ‘they’d only be in the
way.’
‘Oh, if they ran away, then we’d have grape-shot or
Cossacks with whips behind them,’ said the prince.
‘But that’s a joke, and a poor one too, if you’ll excuse
my saying so, prince,’ said Sergey Ivanovitch.
‘I don’t see that it was a joke, that...’ Levin was
beginning, but Sergey Ivanovitch interrupted him.
‘Every member of society is called upon to do his own
special work,’ said he. ‘And men of thought are doing
their work when they express public opinion. And the
single-hearted and full expression of public opinion is the
service of-the press and a phenomenon to rejoice us at the
same time. Twenty years ago we should have been silent,
but now we have heard the voice of the Russian people,

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